Louis M. Abel
Phoenix, AZ
Objective
To acquire a position in your Information Technology Department as an Administrator, Engineer, or Architect
Technical Skills
Notable Achievements
- Successful enterprise implementation for system access controls utilizing FreeIPA / Red Hat IdM with and without Active Directory trusts
- Successful implementation, maintenance, and enforcement of the CIS Benchmarks to ensure systems and applications are hardened beyond PCI compliance across both Linux, UNIX, Windows platforms as well as Middleware
- Successful enterprise implementation of both configuration and asset management via SaltStack, streamlining overall management of 4000+ on-prem and cloud Linux assets
- Successful migrations via PowerShell from vRealize 6 to 7.6 for clients that did not perform in-place upgrades
- Built and co-lead an open source team to create and release an Enterprise Linux distribution called “Rocky Linux” based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS Stream
- Built and maintained many ansible roles and playbooks to maintain the Rocky Linux infrastructure
Professional Experience
Open Source Contributions
- RPM maintainer for the Red Hat based Linux distributions based on Fedora Packaging Guidelines
- Maintain personal github repos for FreeIPA Identity Management, PCI compliance configurations for Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems, Discord Python plugins, and RPM build specs
- Collaborate and provide support for FreeIPA Identity Management and Fedora on mail list and IRC mediums
- Infrastructure, Identity Management, and Release Engineering for Rocky Linux
Certifications
- RHCE - Red Hat Certified Engineer - April 14, 2025 - 120-155-718
- RHCSIM - Red Hat Certified Specialist in Identity Management - April 17, 2022 - 120-155-718